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The Business of Guns
Leaders in San Diego, Oakland, and San Francisco hope the effort will incentivize better practices across the gun industry.
Gun Policy
After a 20-year wait, it's unclear if a controversial state law requiring gun stores to carry smart guns will finally take effect.
Ask The Trace
Laws to expand the technology's use have passed in three states and the District of Columbia. But some are questioning its effectiveness.
Lawsuit alleges “serious malfunctions” in pistols provided by Sig Sauer, which just won a massive contract to outfit the Army with new sidearms.
Community Violence
The spasm of violence spread across half a dozen states within a 19-hour time period.
Q & A
Ernst Mauch talks with The Trace about the future of high-tech firearms.
State senators hope the governor and Republican presidential candidate will make time to read the new bill after he said he was too busy to consider their last effort.
Domestic Violence
The New Jersey governor and Republican presidential candidate says a bipartisan bill tightening gun surrender laws for abusers is redundant. But is it?
Politics
GOP presidential contender expedites firearms permitting process for those "living under a direct or material threat."
And he was one of them.